The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IT would take a Druid to look dignified while
coming out of pawn-shop
BISHOP H. w. WARREN, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, has returned to this country
from the Orient.
For baby born in the San Francisco city
prison hospital the San Franciscans made up
Christmas purse of $500.
A NEW American play is making a great SEN
sation in London. and is becoming immensely
popular. 1t is called Uncle TOMS Cabin"
A FEW days ago Lord Colin Campbell was re-
leased from bankruptcy. He said that his only
income was 50, 900 per year, allowed him by his
kind and indulgent father.
NEBRASKA State Journal: intellectual giants
viii now tramp forty fifty miles Juggling a
gun weighing ton or so in order to shoot rab-
bit that will sell at the grocery stores for ten
cents.
THE Epoch: Wife Ito unhappy husband)-I
wouldn't worry John; it doesn't do any good to
borrow trouble. Husband-Borrow troubled
Great Caesar. my dear, amt borrowing trouble;
I've got it to lend
MAX ORELL says: ''Good society, like good
hotels is the same the world over, and when 1
have spent evening in aristocratic
house, say as 1 depart, I've passed pleasant
evening, but I've lost my time
A Boston who read Mr.. Depew's and
Mark Twain's speeches at the Forefathers' din
nef III Inat city, OenOunceS 10eE DOtl as wit
less twaddle. and very low comedy, not above
the level of good minstrel performance"
THE latest rumor is that John Paul Jones a
nephew of Senator Voorhees,, is to be appointed
United States district attorney for the District
of Columbia. the post for which General Bragg
of Wisconsin, was named last week by the Cos
sipers.
DRAKE's Magazine: An article in n newspa-
per the other day was called "a Novel Rail
road" We have travelled ON it. 1t is the rail
road on which the trainboy drops forty-seven
-soiled novels of the Seaside Library series on
the passengers lap before he travels ten miles.
JAY GOULD is reported to have said recently
that the spectators have made a plaything of
his health for years. and that he could shake
Wall street to its foundations by simply stand
ing on the steps of the Stock Exchange build
ing. striking his forehead with his hand and
giving groan or two.
Miss KITE C. WILKINS, the horse queen of
Idaho, is somewhat tall, with high forehead
regular features and rather light hair, being
something of blonde. Her eyes are dark and
her manner very charming. Altogether she inn
presses one a very intelligent young lady of
about twenty-three. She owns nearly 800 horses.
EDWARD BURNETT, who succeeds Mr.. Ely in
Congress, is a brother-in law of James Russell
Lowell, and the owner of Deerfoot farm near
Boston He is an authority upon blooded stock,
and the Deerfoot butter and sausages have
name far away from home New York,
where they eagerly bought, and always
command high price.
OF the Representatives PIG are lawyers and
of the Delegates 5. Several of the States have
delegations composed entirely of them. Mis-
sissippi has T. South Carolina 7, Texas TO- Yer
mont and West Virginia 4. The farmers num-
Der II and with the planters IL. There 18
manufacturers. l3 merchants, 10 bankers 10
journalists, 6 physicians, minister's drug
gists, stenographer, l railroad president 1
stock-raiser, l brewer and cooper One hun
dred and seventyeight members were educated
in colleges or universities.
WH1TrIER's congratulatory letters already
number over 500, and the end is not yet. The
venerable poet is ambitious to send replies to
all. and hopes with the assistance of his niece
and secretary, to accomplish this stupendous
task. The old gentleman would be excusabe If
he should entertain the wish that some of the
mails might get 'snow bound" and never get
free again.
IT is rumored that the large estate of the
Earl of Buckinghamshire, recently offered for
SALE has been purchased by Vanderbilt, who is
now in Constantinople London solicitors are
said to have bought it for him The magnii-
cent $3.50 acre property originally belonged to
John Hampden, a Roundhead of the revolution,
from whom it descended to Hobart Hampdens
family. The present Earl is dead.
UNITED STATES SENATOR FARwELL, of Chi
cago is described as the possessor of magnif-
cent physique, with bright and laughing eye.
He is both brainy and wealthy. having made a
fortune recently in building the Texas State
house, the pay for which he received mostly in
land. 1t took 200 miles of fencing to inclose
his estate and he has cattle by the tens of thou
sands upon the ranch. His wife is with him in
WaShin gton and is noted for her charitable
work. Miss Farwel is not in society this win
ter, and it is reported that she will be married
shortly to the son of Mr.. Winston, ex-Minis-
ter to Persia.